VMware Job Trends in the South East

VMware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 61 53
Rank change year-on-year -51 -8 +27
Permanent jobs citing VMware 221 294 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.56% 4.28% 4.23%
As % of the Vendors category 6.05% 10.84% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 167 254 639
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £55,675
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,300 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.19% +12.21% -6.86%

All Vendors
South East

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,654 2,713 6,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.73% 39.53% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,058 1,718 4,564
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,828 £37,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +12.77% -6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,325 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.64%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VMware job vacancy trend in the South East

VMware
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the South East

VMware
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -4 78 £60,000 +22.45% 27
Hampshire -60 60 £58,000 -14.07% 29
Berkshire +2 48 £67,500 +38.46% 15
Surrey -41 41 £42,500 +6.25% 16
Kent -19 26 £34,500 -23.33% 4
Buckinghamshire -21 20 £57,000 +14.00% 9
Oxfordshire -7 10 £58,312 +19.00% 3
West Sussex -15 5 £32,500 +6.56% 3
East Sussex -19 4 £40,000 +45.45%
Home Counties +2 3 £85,000 +21.43%
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 40 (18.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (8.14%) SharePoint
3 14 (6.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (0.90%) CMS
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 99 (44.80%) Azure
2 66 (29.86%) AWS
2 66 (29.86%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (10.86%) GCP
4 22 (9.95%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.33%) Nutanix
6 11 (4.98%) SaaS
7 9 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.62%) GitHub
8 8 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.26%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.26%) Mimecast
9 5 (2.26%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.36%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.90%) Datadog
11 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (42.53%) Firewall
2 68 (30.77%) DNS
3 45 (20.36%) DHCP
4 37 (16.74%) VPN
5 21 (9.50%) LAN
6 20 (9.05%) SAN
6 20 (9.05%) WAN
7 16 (7.24%) TCP/IP
8 15 (6.79%) NAS
8 15 (6.79%) VLAN
9 11 (4.98%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (4.52%) Wireless
11 9 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (3.62%) NetScaler
13 6 (2.71%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (2.71%) VSAN
13 6 (2.71%) Wireshark
14 5 (2.26%) BGP
14 5 (2.26%) Network Security
15 4 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.33%) Oracle Database
1 14 (6.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (1.36%) Power BI
2 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (2.26%) JIRA
2 4 (1.81%) Subversion
3 1 (0.45%) Git
General
1 52 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.69%) Retail
3 16 (7.24%) Finance
4 11 (4.98%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.07%) Marketing
7 7 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.81%) Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (18.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (15.84%) IT Support
3 34 (15.38%) Senior
4 32 (14.48%) Architect
5 30 (13.57%) Support Engineer
6 24 (10.86%) IT Engineer
7 21 (9.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Lead
9 16 (7.24%) 3rd Line Support
10 15 (6.79%) 2nd Line Support
11 13 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) Support Technician
11 13 (5.88%) Systems Support
12 12 (5.43%) Applications Architect
13 10 (4.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (4.07%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.43%) Regular Expression
2 10 (4.52%) LDAP
3 8 (3.62%) XMPP
4 4 (1.81%) JSON
4 4 (1.81%) JSON Schema
4 4 (1.81%) XML
5 2 (0.90%) Web Services
6 1 (0.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.31%) Data Centre
2 21 (9.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (6.79%) Private Cloud
4 14 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.88%) Client/Server
6 12 (5.43%) Public Cloud
7 9 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.62%) Replication
9 7 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (3.17%) iSeries
9 7 (3.17%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.71%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.71%) PKI
11 5 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.26%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.90%) Clustering
13 2 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
14 1 (0.45%) Life Science
14 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 135 (61.09%) Windows
2 105 (47.51%) Windows Server
3 61 (27.60%) Linux
4 16 (7.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (6.33%) HPUX
5 14 (6.33%) Solaris
5 14 (6.33%) Unix
5 14 (6.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (6.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (5.88%) Apple iOS
6 13 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 13 (5.88%) Windows 7
7 9 (4.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (3.62%) Mac OS
8 8 (3.62%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.17%) Android
10 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.81%) CentOS
12 1 (0.45%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (20.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 38 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (13.12%) ITIL
6 23 (10.41%) Business Continuity
7 21 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (8.14%) Project Delivery
8 18 (8.14%) Test Automation
9 17 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 17 (7.69%) Incident Management
10 16 (7.24%) ITSM
10 16 (7.24%) Server Management
11 15 (6.79%) Agile
11 15 (6.79%) Customer Service
11 15 (6.79%) SIEM
12 14 (6.33%) DevOps
12 14 (6.33%) Mentoring
12 14 (6.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.93%) PowerShell
2 23 (10.41%) Python
3 17 (7.69%) SQL
4 13 (5.88%) C
4 13 (5.88%) C++
4 13 (5.88%) Perl
4 13 (5.88%) Rust
5 11 (4.98%) Bash
6 8 (3.62%) Go
7 4 (1.81%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 51 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 27 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.95%) Degree
5 15 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.62%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.17%) CCNA
10 5 (2.26%) MCSE
10 5 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.36%) VCAP
11 3 (1.36%) VCDX
12 2 (0.90%) MCSA
13 1 (0.45%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.45%) CCNP
13 1 (0.45%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.76%) SLA
2 10 (4.52%) QA
3 5 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.36%) PMO
5 2 (0.90%) NIST
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (49.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 102 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 70 (31.67%) Hyper-V
4 31 (14.03%) vSphere
5 21 (9.50%) VMware NSX
6 17 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (6.33%) KVM
8 7 (3.17%) Firmware
9 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.36%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.36%) Terminal Server
10 3 (1.36%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.36%) vCloud
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.45%) Docker
12 1 (0.45%) pfSense
12 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (11.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (8.60%) Terraform
3 18 (8.14%) Ansible
3 18 (8.14%) vCenter Server
4 13 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 12 (5.43%) SCCM
6 10 (4.52%) Grafana
6 10 (4.52%) vRealize
7 9 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.07%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.62%) SCOM
9 6 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.81%) Nessus
11 2 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.90%) VxRail
12 1 (0.45%) CASB
12 1 (0.45%) Puppet
12 1 (0.45%) SCSM
12 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (53.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.95%) Citrix
2 22 (9.95%) Veeam
3 19 (8.60%) Cisco
4 18 (8.14%) HP
5 15 (6.79%) Dell
5 15 (6.79%) NetApp
6 14 (6.33%) Oracle
7 12 (5.43%) McAfee
7 12 (5.43%) Red Hat
8 11 (4.98%) Nimble Storage
9 10 (4.52%) CheckPoint
9 10 (4.52%) Google
10 9 (4.07%) Fortinet
10 9 (4.07%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.62%) Barracuda Networks
11 8 (3.62%) Dell Compellent
11 8 (3.62%) Sophos
12 7 (3.17%) Juniper
12 7 (3.17%) SolarWinds